3 comments:

I'm not a book seller so I have nothing to contribute, but I'm not sure I get the reasoning behind only soliciting anecdotes from countries where the book will be distributed initially.Incidentally, you'll change it to Diagon Alley for the U.S. edition, right? :-)

Tyler: the idea with this book is to support local bookshops. I don't want to open up submissions worldwide in case we don't sell rights to certain countries. This way I know the book is going to be sold in the places I ask for submissions from, no one submits 'in vain', as it were, and I'm able to keep on top of everything :) x

Jen Campbell is the author of the best-selling 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops' series, and her new book 'The Bookshop Book' is out now. She's also an award-winning poet and short story writer. Her poetry collection 'The Hungry Ghost Festival' is published by The Rialto, and she lives in London, where she works at an antiquarian bookshop. She is currently writing her first novel.

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